 All the others in the boat have "disappeared"[the delirious sapper Captain who was in command disappears, evidently 'precipitated' by Ludovic, but there is nothing in the text to indicate that the rest of the 'small party' on the boat disappear].Apparently a hero, Ludovic is commissioned as an officer.In Egypt, Mrs Stitch, a character who turns up in other Waugh books, takes Guy under her well-connected wing.